Life Is Beautiful | |
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Promotional poster for Life Is Beautiful
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Also known as | Beautiful Life |
Genre |
Romance Drama Family |
Written by | Kim Soo-hyun |
Directed by | Jung Eul-young |
Starring |
Song Chang-eui Lee Sang-woo Lee Sang-yoon Nam Sang-mi |
Country of origin | South Korea |
Original language(s) | Korean |
No. of episodes | 63 |
Production | |
Location(s) | Korea |
Running time | Saturdays and Sundays at 21:45 (KST) |
Release | |
Original network | Seoul Broadcasting System |
Original release | 20 March | – 7 November 2010
Chronology | |
Preceded by | Smile, You |
Followed by | Secret Garden |
External links | |
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Life Is Beautiful (Hangul: 인생은 아름다워; Hanja: 人生은 아름다워; RR: Insaengeun Areumdawo) is a 2010 South Korean television series starring Song Chang-eui, Lee Sang-woo, Lee Sang-yoon and Nam Sang-mi. It aired on SBS from March 20 to November 7, 2010 on Saturdays and Sundays at 21:45 for 63 episodes.
Aside from scoring ratings in the mid-twenty range during its run, the series is notable for its sensitive portrayal of a loving, openly gay couple in a Korean drama on primetime network television.
Set in Jeju, the drama revolves around a loving, multi-generation family led by the parents Yang Byung-tae (Kim Yeong-cheol) and Kim Min-jae (Kim Hae-sook), and their four children Tae-sub (Song Chang-eui), Ji-hye (Woo Hee-jin), Ho-sub (Lee Sang-yoon) and Cho-rong (Nam Gyu-ri), as well as assorted grandparents and uncles. The story follows the family's everyday lives and conflicts, including oldest daughter Ji-hye's marital problems with her husband Soo-il (Lee Min-woo); younger son Ho-sub's pursuit of his mother's assistant, Yeon-joo (Nam Sang-mi); and oldest son Tae-sub's romantic pairing with divorced professor Kyung-soo (Lee Sang-woo), whose homosexual relationship their families react to while addressing issues of personal, social, and familial acceptance, leading to, finally, love and understanding.
2010 3rd Korea Drama Awards